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📢 Attention researchers and practitioners! The International Review of the Red Cross calls for papers on 'Before War: Prepare to Comply with IHL'. Submit by 1 December 2025, and contribute to this vital discussion. Read more 👉🏽 https://international-review.icrc.org/call-for-papers-before-war-prepare-to-comply-with-international-humanitarian-law

Attention researchers and practitioners!

The International Review of the Red Cross calls for papers on 'Before War: Prepare to Comply with IHL'. Submit by 1 December 2025, and contribute to this vital discussion.

Read more: ms.spr.ly/63322sQFpe

Image of historical map with text: Call for papers: History and Archives in Practice, 16 April 2026, University of Sheffield. In partnership with the University of Sheffield Library.

'History and Archives in Practice, 2026': call for participation now open bit.ly/4pITZrs

HAP26 takes place @unisheffieldlib.bsky.social
on the theme of 'Shaping Societies, Improving Lives: The Impact of Archives & Historical Research'. With @ihr.bsky.social & @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Our latest talk ... 'Picture Post - A Twentieth Century Icon' ... is now online.

Highly recommended. Please share with #photohistory #photojournalism networks

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To everyone in Britain's Jewish Community: you are not alone. We will not let hate or those who spread it win. We stand with you.

On Yom Kippur many Jewish people in Britain have their phones off to mark the holy day.

As it ends at 723pm, some will hear the tragic Manchester news for the first time.

At that time, please join many of us to send a message of solidarity to British Jews.Thanks Together coalition for proposing.

Just saying.
#Nigeria@65

I can’t afford a coffee machine and I can’t afford £5 coffee. Story of my life post-PhD.

Two weeks off X (formerly Twitter) and my sleep gets better.

The Art of the Impersonal Essay, by Zadie Smith In my experience, every kind of writing requires some kind of self-soothing Jedi mind trick, and, when it comes to essay composition, the rectangle is mine.

“The essay-writing habits of my school days have never left me.” In this week’s issue, Zadie Smith shares a writing tip she’s used for decades.

People watching.

Cardiff, 2024

#photography
#streetphotography
#photoofday
#shows

Cardiff in its full quirky form. From protest sites to a group busking for a trip the Bahamas to a group of Nigerian christians singing carols - all happening simultaneously at the City Center.
Cardiff, 2024

#Art #StreetPhotography #PhotoOfDay #Photography #PortriatPhotography #Shows

Looking forward to our online talk next week...

'Picture Post - a 20th Century Icon' on Thursday 2nd October 2025 (1900 BST).

Register and full details via link.

events.rps.org/en/historica...

As a self-taught painter, I am still working on understanding color theory and brush strokes. 🤧

I started painting during a residency program. This is from my series, “edisat” meaning comb. Where I see figures as combs with sentimental attachments. More on my website nellyating.com #painting #oilpainting #art #visualartist

We need media literacy.

Sometimes I think the real "peace dividend" since the end of the cold war was that a whole generation of analysts grew up underestimating the power of ideology, memory and emotion, and now they cannot recognize a huge cultural shift when it is staring them in the face.
The "soft stuff"matters.

📣 #CfP: "Death and Bereavement in Early Modern Britain, 1520–1689"

Join us for a one-day conference at the University of St Andrews on 26 June 2026. The keynote speaker is Professor Alec Ryrie.

The deadline for proposals is 11 December 2025. #EarlyModernHistory #skystorians

An illustration showing the interior of a urban train with people and game characters inside.

🎮 Got groundbreaking research on video games? There's still time to submit to VideoJogos'25 in Portugal! 🇵🇹
📢 The call for papers closes on September 26. Don't miss your chance to share your work with the community.
+Info: videojogos2025.ipmaia.pt
#CFP #Gaming #GameDev #AcademicBluesky #Conference

Is DOCTOR WHO a soap opera?

We are seeking papers & presentations on this long-running science fiction serial for BGSU’s “Soap Operas in Pop Culture” conference.

Free and open to all scholars, fans, & Daleks! Join us!

www.bgsu.edu/arts-and-sci...

Baldwin Lee’s Extraordinary Pictures from the American South A new book—the first-ever collection of Lee’s work—and a solo exhibition in New York make the case that he is one of the great overlooked luminaries of American picture-making.

A collection of Baldwin Lee’s work makes the case that he is one of the great overlooked luminaries of American picture-making.

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Pretty transparent that brown girlies like Rachel Zegler, Jenna Ortega, and Melissa Barerra—all young, talented, and in the early stages of what should be long careers—are being singled out for punishment for their speech by their own industry to cow others into silence.

Gross!

Fight the Oligarchy Rally Poster with event details for: Las Vegas, NV, Tempe, AZ, Greeley, CO, Denver, CO, and Tucson, AZ

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️
STARTING TOMORROW.

Nevada. Arizona. Colorado.
You, me, and Bernie.
Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙

See you there 💪🏽🌞

From our new series of History’s Secret Heroes with Helena Bonham Carter, here’s the episode on Agent Zo – featuring the brilliant @claremulley.bsky.social. Warning: if you listen, you’re going to want to read the whole book www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

The Silencing of Russian Art Vladimir Putin views his country’s cultural sphere like any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests. What’s been lost?

Putin’s ruling system views the cultural sphere as it does any other sector: a subordinate dominion, which should submit to the state’s needs and interests.

My new book! Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach |Routledge|

#bedouin #naqab #photohist #visualanthro #anthropology #middleeasthistory

The Institutionalisation of Medical Photography, Public Funding and Medical Reform in Parisian Hospitals (1878–1913)* While historians of photography and medicine have rarely engaged with the financial aspects of medical photography, funding strategies had a key role in the early development of this practice. The ...

My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

My big silver tabby avidly reading Carol Dyhouse’s new book Appearances

A formal picture of my nan with set curls in her wartime uniform

My uncle Chris and my mum in the 1960s. He’s wearing a sharp suit and looks like a lost Beatle. She’s wearing a swirly dress and nude lipstick. I’m afraid you may be able to see her knickers

Me, my sister and our dad in the 1990s. He actively did not give a damn about clothes

My mum Carol Dyhouse’s new book Appearances: Memory, History, Clothes is out now! It’s a memoir as well as a cultural history of women’s clothes in 20th century Britain, and features some very beloved family photos. I am quite moved to see them in print.

Historians, if you have undergraduates studying Black History in the c18 & c19, please encourage them to apply for a summer fellowship at the Library Company of Philadelphia. I am extending the deadline.

librarycompany.org/mellon-schol...